1973

This issue is supposed to be my chance to shine—to write about so many of you, so wittingly that I will be quoted in a box. I'm overjoyed to say I won't get that chance. The three letters which follow are just the stuff I've been badgering you for and I'm happy to admit that '73 wrote its own column:

Penned by Bill DeJong on November 12, 1991: "Having confessed past sins [see "The Masked Stork" in the October 1991 issue], I can now begin my Dartmouth rehabilitation—I have just begun a three-year term on the Board of Visitors for the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Other news is that my wife, Maureen, and I have a new daughter, Meg, born on October 25. She's doing great. But having received both Dartmouth and Harvard sweatshirts as gifts, she is understandably conflicted about her future plans.

"Two other tidbits: Bruce Fredrickson, a Washington-based lawyer who specializes in sexual harassment cases, has been swamped with phone calls ever since the Anita Hi11/ Clarence Thomas contretemps. RobinHirsch, still plying his trade in Hollywood as a videotape cameraman, has now moved into producing his own projects."

Courtesy of Major Robert G. Conway Jr., USMC, who most of us prefer to think of as Bob, writing on December 18, 1991:

"Lynda, Phillip (five years old on December 31) and I are at Camp Lejeune, N.C. (since July 1991). I am the land-use attorney for the Marine Corps installations in North and South Carolina (Base Camp Lejeune and Air Station Cherry Point in N.C. and Air Station Beaufort and Recruit Training Depot Parris Island in S.C.). We've got the usual array of problems (environment, expansion, aircraft noise, artillery noise, encroachment by neighboring developments, solid waste disposal, etc.) which small cities (or military installations) might experience. There's full employment for military lawyers in these areas!

"I have just learned from a navy chaplain that our classmate Earl Johnson (whose religious name is Father Andrew Johnson, OCSO—that's Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, a.k.a "Trappists"), was ordained a priest last August and is now serving as the prior (the number-two leadership position: the "abbot" is number one) at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass. I corresponded with Earl last spring and learned that he had just returned to the United States after studying theology in Europe (Rome, I believe). Trappists are by lifestyle adverse to publicity and self-promotion. I do believe, however, that Earl would not mind your mentioning this happy news in the class column."

And, finally, from Trevor O'Neill: "I'm pleased to announce that on November 23, 1991,1 married Ellen Marjorie Iseman at the Cosmopolitan Club in Manhattan. Dartmouth attendees included Jon Low, Fran and BernieSparagna, Chris and Janette Ley, John andMarguerite Harrington, Alex and InnaRodzianko, Allen Kraus, Peter Luthy,Michael Winn, and Tom '72 and Beth Stebo. To the best of my recollection, no one was arrested.

"We live in Manhattan, where Ellen runs Issues Management International Inc., a public affairs consulting group, and I toil at the law firm Mayer, Brown & Piatt."

Trevor is either very much in love or very loyal to the class, having taken time out on Christmas Day to report his good news. Whatever the case, I'm sure I speak for us all in offering warm congratulations to the groom and best wishes to his bride!

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